From: Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com

The timestamp used to determine if an instruction sample is made, is an estimate based on the number of instructions since the last known timestamp. A consequence is that it might go backwards, which results in extra samples. Change it so that a sample is only made when the timestamp goes forwards.

Note this does not affect a sampling period of 0 or sampling periods specified as a count of instructions.

Example:

Before:

$ perf script --itrace=i10us ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222583: 3270 instructions:u: 7fac71e2e494 __GI___tunables_init+0xf4 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so) ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222667: 30902 instructions:u: 7fac71e2da0f _dl_cache_libcmp+0x2f (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so) ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222667: 10 instructions:u: 7fac71e2d9ff _dl_cache_libcmp+0x1f (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so) ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222667: 8 instructions:u: 7fac71e2d9ea _dl_cache_libcmp+0xa (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so) ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222667: 14 instructions:u: 7fac71e2d9ea _dl_cache_libcmp+0xa (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so) ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222667: 6 instructions:u: 7fac71e2d9ff _dl_cache_libcmp+0x1f (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so) ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222667: 14 instructions:u: 7fac71e2d9ff _dl_cache_libcmp+0x1f (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so) ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222667: 4 instructions:u: 7fac71e2dab2 _dl_cache_libcmp+0xd2 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so) ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222728: 16423 instructions:u: 7fac71e2477a _dl_map_object_deps+0x1ba (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so) ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222734: 12731 instructions:u: 7fac71e27938 _dl_name_match_p+0x68 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so) ...

After: $ perf script --itrace=i10us ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222583: 3270 instructions:u: 7fac71e2e494 __GI___tunables_init+0xf4 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so) ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222667: 30902 instructions:u: 7fac71e2da0f _dl_cache_libcmp+0x2f (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so) ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222728: 16479 instructions:u: 7fac71e2477a _dl_map_object_deps+0x1ba (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so) ...

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: Jiri Olsa jolsa@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: f4aa081949e7b ("perf tools: Add Intel PT decoder") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190510124143.27054-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com --- tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c index 872fab163585..26dbf11e071a 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c @@ -888,16 +888,20 @@ static uint64_t intel_pt_next_period(struct intel_pt_decoder *decoder) timestamp = decoder->timestamp + decoder->timestamp_insn_cnt; masked_timestamp = timestamp & decoder->period_mask; if (decoder->continuous_period) { - if (masked_timestamp != decoder->last_masked_timestamp) + if (masked_timestamp > decoder->last_masked_timestamp) return 1; } else { timestamp += 1; masked_timestamp = timestamp & decoder->period_mask; - if (masked_timestamp != decoder->last_masked_timestamp) { + if (masked_timestamp > decoder->last_masked_timestamp) { decoder->last_masked_timestamp = masked_timestamp; decoder->continuous_period = true; } } + + if (masked_timestamp < decoder->last_masked_timestamp) + return decoder->period_ticks; + return decoder->period_ticks - (timestamp - masked_timestamp); }

@@ -926,7 +930,10 @@ static void intel_pt_sample_insn(struct intel_pt_decoder *decoder) case INTEL_PT_PERIOD_TICKS: timestamp = decoder->timestamp + decoder->timestamp_insn_cnt; masked_timestamp = timestamp & decoder->period_mask; - decoder->last_masked_timestamp = masked_timestamp; + if (masked_timestamp > decoder->last_masked_timestamp) + decoder->last_masked_timestamp = masked_timestamp; + else + decoder->last_masked_timestamp += decoder->period_ticks; break; case INTEL_PT_PERIOD_NONE: case INTEL_PT_PERIOD_MTC: